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[Aeson]

I saw a truck tonight with Redneck Cadillac emblazoned across the rear window. Of course, it was a stereotypical pickup jacked up with huge tires. Tell me these guys aren't compensating for something. I should have taken a picture. A drawing would make an amazing cover art piece for Mullets & Monstertrucks. I think I might have to have it changed to Caddy or something. Cadillac but with a splotch of mud covering part of the name.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You’ve heard of “coal rolling”, right?

 

[Aeson]

I have not but I have seen a truck driving around with a single HUGEpipe coming out of the bed. I figure it's for something like that.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Usually, that’s just for projecting more noise, or as part of an exhaust system for trucks that are intended to get into relatively deep water.

The rollers’ modification actually emits more diesel soot. (It’s also getting outlawed in many states.)

 

[Scott DeWar]

Dogs in general as animal companions, as long as they're "real" dogs not play things like Pomeranians and Chihuahuas. Around here they seem to favor German shepards, Rottweilers, and anything with bull in the breed name.

Alcohol provides a DR? I'm more inclined to say a deflection bonus to AC.

temp levels in drunken maser perhaps?

Yes. Seriously, I was thinking hillbillies and swamp people would be variants. Maybe prestige classes.

'gators as animal companion?

Like a certain other insult it has been embraced. Many are proud of it.

yanky doodle dandy was what the people of the new born USA had accepted as a name in the revolutionary war, though "Dandy" was a British reference to an effeminate man.

 

[Aeson]

As I understand Yankee Doodle Dandy was intended to be an insult. But something we Americans do best, we took possession of it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well, more precisely, dandyism was a sociopolitical movement in the upper class that was kind of hedonistic, and not far from modern celebrity personally cults. Dandies believed themselves to be inherently superior to others to the point they need not even work, that society owed them a living by virtue of their chariisma, and were flashy dressers as a way to display their exalted nature.

So you can see how calling someone a “dandy” could be used as a sarcastic dig. And how embracing that term would be seen as linguistic bird-flip right back!

 

[Aeson]

My first gaming group had a thing about dandies. You didn't want to be one, you would mercilessly ridiculed. Which made me want to create the biggest foppish dandy I could think of. I still work dandies into games I run. Often in the form of an innkeeper who is "Fabulous" His inn seemed to traverse space and time, and genres.

 

[Aeson]

I had a pretty decent laptop from Dell a few years back. It's been in the possession of my mom until my sister and her teenage kids got ahold of it. The battery needed replacing recently. Other than that it has had few problems. Today I was presented with the laptop 30 minutes before I had to leave. I was told he kept freezing up. Also this large area of the screen had this big box over it. I would liken it to the box created when you want to group select things by holding down the mouse button and dragging it. Oddly, this box was still present during the booting process and in safe mode. It was not there on an external monitor. My first guess is probably correct, the screen is damaged.
I spent what little time I had trying to fix the other problem. There were 6 antivirus programs on it. 1 I never heard of. It appears to be the cause of the freezing. I uninstalled 3 of the antivirus programs, along with other bloatware. Uninstalling the one was odd. It deleted A LOT of files from a cashe folder. When it froze there was a message stating it was waiting on the cashe. The uninstall fixed the freezing problem. I'm going to take admin rights away from my family. Only I shall install software.

I'm afraid someone put something on the laptop. I suspect someone thought it would be a nice place to put a heavy book or something. My mom is bad about putting stuff on top of electronic equipment. She'll even put drink bottles and cups on them. I have seen more than one device with rings on the screen much like the ring found under a cup on a table. LAPTOPS AND TABLETS ARE NOT DRINK TRAYS OR TABLES!!!!!!!!! If it is on a table and you have nowhere to place your drink, move the fecking tablet or laptop, then put the drink on the table.

I used to be a big fan of P2P file sharing ( watched Battlestar Galactica episodes days before it was on syfy). I kept McAfee, Malware Bytes, and Superantispyware on my computers. Those programs will remove nearly any bug. Superantispyware even helped me get that FBI scam screen removed from a computer. I had to run it from command line to do it. It's a great program and highly recommended it.

 

[megamania]

The rollers’ modification actually emits more diesel soot. (It’s also getting outlawed in many states.)

Gee.... I wonder why?